DesertNomad Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 https://www.strava.com/activities/1959719630?share_sig=82AAC17D1541978132&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ios_share Now it's your turn. Next Sunday! Register on USAcycling.org No license required. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 21 hours ago, DesertNomad said: https://www.strava.com/activities/1959719630?share_sig=82AAC17D1541978132&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ios_share Now it's your turn. Next Sunday! Register on USAcycling.org No license required. Nice looking Carbine! Bet it delivers a plush but efficient ride over that treacherous terrain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Oh man I'm doomed. Anyone else gonna be at Reveille the day before? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Any advice on rest days prior to the event? I'm thinking that I'll take my final training rides Wed-Thu, take a light ride Fri, and then have a complete rest day on Sat. Thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioGG Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Take Friday off, do your light ride on Saturday. Thursday shouldn't be a hard ride. Not easy not hard. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRIDER Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Not sure I'm good enough to give advice, but here is my routine for the week. Light 2 hour rides on Thursday and Friday. These will be on paved trail and just to keep my legs moving. Not ideal, but I'll take what the weather gives me. Upper body gym workout today or tomorrow which I usually do once a week. Will make a big pot of spaghetti for the family tomorrow and will eat that daily until Saturday. Saturday will do chores and family activities to make up for being away all day Sunday. I've put in 70-100 of road and/or urban miles per week for the last few months, but have only ridden my full suspension once since I busted the linkage on the dragon pre-ride in August. Really have no Idea how i will fare on three laps since I'm in 'bike' shape, but not necessarily 'mountain bike' shape. But I'll get in 2 and see if I feel like doing a third. Last year there was a water stop at cedar breaks and there was some sort of electrolyte additive in the water. Anyone remember what it was? I want to buy some and put it in my water bottles. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertNomad Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) 37 minutes ago, JRIDER said: Not sure I'm good enough to give advice, but here is my routine for the week. Light 2 hour rides on Thursday and Friday. These will be on paved trail and just to keep my legs moving. Not ideal, but I'll take what the weather gives me. Upper body gym workout today or tomorrow which I usually do once a week. Will make a big pot of spaghetti for the family tomorrow and will eat that daily until Saturday. Saturday will do chores and family activities to make up for being away all day Sunday. I've put in 70-100 of road and/or urban miles per week for the last few months, but have only ridden my full suspension once since I busted the linkage on the dragon pre-ride in August. Really have no Idea how i will fare on three laps since I'm in 'bike' shape, but not necessarily 'mountain bike' shape. But I'll get in 2 and see if I feel like doing a third. Last year there was a water stop at cedar breaks and there was some sort of electrolyte additive in the water. Anyone remember what it was? I want to buy some and put it in my water bottles. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. The drink mix was Hammer Nutrition Heed. There will be more of it again this year. You will be able to fill up at base camp. They sent me a ton of stuff for the event. As for riding between now and then: 1. Do a 2 hour ride on Wednesday of 18-24 miles on trail, or less than double that on road, staying zone 1-2 pushing at times into zone 3 to get over rollers. Stay well clear of threshold efforts. 2. Thursday would be a 1 hour recovery ride on flat terrain staying in zone 1. 3. Friday take a day off the bike with minimal activity. 4. Saturday first thing in the morning, entirely on mostly flat terrain, ride 15 minutes building slowly into mid zone 2, then "ladder" sprints of 10 seconds, 20, 30, 20 and 10 seconds with 3 minute recoveries in between. Then a 60 second full effort with a five minute rest then a 45 second full effort finishing with 15 minutes spooling down into a zone 1. This is a low "training stress score" workout that will get the junk out of your muscles and system. 5. Finish each ride with a quality recovery shake. I use First Endurance Ultragen. Edited November 14, 2018 by DesertNomad 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrute Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Oh man I'm doomed. Anyone else gonna be at Reveille the day before?YesSent from my SM-G900P using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSarge Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Did registration fill up? I registered and can't make it so I can give up my slot if needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBaron Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 58 minutes ago, TheSarge said: Did registration fill up? I registered and can't make it so I can give up my slot if needed. I know another person who is in this situation too. I told him to reach out and contact Todd via FB to let him know. -CJB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 I've been registered since Aug 16 and finally made it out there today for a practice lap. Finished in 3:45 without pushing too hard, but it still took a lot out of me. I'm still planning on 2 laps though …… the one I did today and another one on Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBaron Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 How were trail conditions? Was there much water at the few crossings? -CJB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 10 hours ago, CBaron said: How were trail conditions? Was there much water at the few crossings? -CJB There were probably half-a-dozen or so spots on the trail where you had to ride through some mud, but other than that the conditions were perfect. I walked all but 2 of the crossings I think, which was made easy by rocks and branches that had been placed for that purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 (edited) I noticed that my Strava didn't register the SSlayer segment, although my miles were actually greater - 26.6 vs. 26.4. Could just be because I started at CB instead of Russel, although I didn't thing that mattered on Strava as long as you cover the complete segment. It does look like I added a short triangle at Walnut Springs, but I'm pretty sure I was following whatever signs were posted there. Also looks like either my GPS failed or I got off track going through Russel Park. I do remember at one of the crossings cutting across a grassy median to get to where the Race sign was on the other side. Suppose I should have looped around on the street instead. https://www.strava.com/activities/1965255238/overview Edited November 15, 2018 by throet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertNomad Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 28 minutes ago, throet said: I noticed that my Strava didn't register the SSlayer segment, although my miles were actually greater - 26.6 vs. 26.4. Could just be because I started at CB instead of Russel, although I didn't thing that mattered on Strava as long as you cover the complete segment. It does look like I added a short triangle at Walnut Springs, but I'm pretty sure I was following whatever signs were posted there. Also looks like either my GPS failed or I got off track going through Russel Park. I do remember at one of the crossings cutting across a grassy median to get to where the Race sign was on the other side. Suppose I should have looped around on the street instead. https://www.strava.com/activities/1965255238/overview the SSlayer segment which someone made last year starts at Russell. That is why it did not register. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertNomad Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 22 hours ago, TheSarge said: Did registration fill up? I registered and can't make it so I can give up my slot if needed. Registration will not fill up this year. Sorry you cannot make it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fontarin Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 I'm probably just going to do a lap on Saturday due to some stuff that has come up on Sunday. Hope y'all have a good ride and the rain holds off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertNomad Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 There is no bad weather for riding a bike, only bad clothing choices 😉 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
512 Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 I just dropped some change on a insulted shell - it had to be done. See ya Sunday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 1 hour ago, DesertNomad said: There is no bad weather for riding a bike, only bad clothing choices 😉 Yeah, or bad dental plan choices. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
512 Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 6 minutes ago, Kyle said: Yeah, or bad dental plan choices. I always run one of these. It's a bad clothing choice but a good dental choice (it has come in handy one time). https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002SR8SE8/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 Kudos to anybody who finished 2 or 3 laps out there today! The conditions were not optimal but seemed to improve as the day went on. I opted for only a single lap at the 11am start time but did manage to beat my previous best lap time by 30 minutes, finishing in 3:17 today. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneyBadger Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 12 hours ago, throet said: Kudos to anybody who finished 2 or 3 laps out there today! The conditions were not optimal but seemed to improve as the day went on. I opted for only a single lap at the 11am start time but did manage to beat my previous best lap time by 30 minutes, finishing in 3:17 today. That's a great time throet. I was planning on doing two laps, but only did one. A few minutes before the finish line I got a small cramp in my left quad, it gave me the perfect excuse to call it a day after one lap. It was the responsible thing to do 😉 I wouldn't want the person sweeping the course to find me crying somewhere in Cedar Breaks. Glad I finally finished a lap of Georgetown and got that monkey off my back. I've tried it 7 times and failed to complete it because of mechanicals, injury, or flooding (last time I separated my shoulder and tore my rotor cuff). It was a great event and I'm glad I did it. Next year I'll be back for two laps and a rock trophy. A big thanks to DesertNomad for putting on the event, it was the smoothest run race I've been to. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seths Pool Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 1 minute ago, HoneyBadger said: That's a great time throet. I was planning on doing two laps, but only did one. A few minutes before the finish line I got a small cramp in my left quad, it gave me the perfect excuse to call it a day after one lap. It was the responsible thing to do 😉 I wouldn't want the person sweeping the course to find me crying somewhere in Cedar Breaks. Glad I finally finished a lap of Georgetown and got that monkey off my back. I've tried it 7 times and failed to complete it because of mechanicals, injury, or flooding (last time I separated my shoulder and tore my rotor cuff). It was a great event and I'm glad I did it. Next year I'll be back for two laps and a rock trophy. A big thanks to DesertNomad for putting on the event, it was the smoothest run race I've been to. good job dude! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBaron Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 Yes, everything did go very well considering the forecast and what 'could've been'. The first lap was damp and a bit sloppy, but the 2nd lap was MUCH MUCH better. Once the rocks had dried, some of the (few) dirt sections were hero dirt. Although the muddy sections and water crossings had expanded due to the traffic coming through the trail. But overall a great day. I knocked 30 minutes off last years time. And the winner (top 3?) all beat last year's winning time. So it was quick! Desert Nomad put in a lot of work and it showed! -CJB 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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